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emericthoa.bsky.social
Game designer & producer at The Game Bakers. Made Furi, Haven and other stuff. Japan lover, amateur cook.
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In a very unusual way, I received in my mailbox not an invoice or a fine, but a volume of Spatule Jump, with the first published story of @beloup.bsky.social ! Thanks a looooot! Go go Sélène!

I learned how to say « today, we are doing playtests » in Japanese!

- MS Gamepass (imo a failing strategy) - Sony / Ubi / Everyone "Let's build big Game As A Service"games - Indie games below 3m$ are too cheap (was the norm speech in 2021) And I could go on

Some other exemples: - Embracer's many studio buyouts (sold most of them since) - Amazon Game Studios (haha) - Netflix coming into games - Google Stadia is going to disrupt everyting

Seeing Netease and Tencent pull back from western markets is a classic. Every year people are telling me how "big company is doing things right", just because it's a big company. Even though the strategy makes no sense at all.

The Promise Mascot Agency demo trailer does a great job using title cards (you know these screens with text during trailers). Usually it's boring and hard to trust. Here it's factual and you get it and it's FUUUUUN. Gonna play the demo. bsky.app/profile/kaiz...

'Promise Mascot Agency' Demo now available on all platforms! youtu.be/lHfm3II7U9A?...

For some reason I feel bad that Bref season 2 (a brillant french tv show), ends up on Disney+ (or any subscription platform). It's going to be binged and forgotten like everything else. We must absolutely keep video games from ending like TV and keep the balance between premium, subs and F2P.

Oink is our Valentine this year! Some cool cat dropped off this AWESOME Oink at our studio, but we didn’t catch their name! Can you help us thank this stellar mystery-gifter?

I'm thinking about Akagi because I'm watching Kaiji on Netflix, and although it's not as good as Akagi, it's still good, and I love the ending credits animation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp7q...

For a couple of years, I've played mahjong every weekend with friends. Later I watched the anime Akagi, a "mahjong gambling thriller", and honestly, it's one of the best suspensful anime I've ever watched. Highly recommended.

Trying to give that special someone a hint? Why not invite them over for some couch co-op and chill? 😏 Haven is the perfect choice for a romantic evening in, and its 60% off rn! bit.ly/Haven-Steam

My good friend @hazariel.bsky.social just dropped an amazing video! She visited our studio, crafted Big Helmet Heroes with me, and caught some nice moments from our release party ! m.youtube.com/watch?v=ocH_...

Today is @exaltedstudio.com's Big Helmet Heroes release day! Hyped to play it in coop at home :). Castle Crasher's nostalgia hitting hard. youtu.be/OvGur5Td1hk

30 years-ish ago I bought Blue Seed, the game from the anime, on Saturn (japanese import), and completed it (in Japanese). The gameplay wasn't fun but the journey to modern fantasy Japan was fantastic. It's the first RPG I played where the world was not full HF or SF. Blew my kid's mind.

In Astrobot, the raindrops impact briefly show the Playstation symbols... 🤯

Ok I love fun credits in games (Haven credits from the title screen for proof), but Astrobot is something else. I was skeptical at the begining but the whole thing is incredible. Go Astro. 100% good vibes.

Production tip: - Define a project schedule - Add "controls rebinding" to the feature list - Add one year to the schedule

SHIN ZERO, ma nouvelle bd avec @blackysan.bsky.social sort le 22 janvier prochain au label 619, et pour l'occasion voici le TRAILER ! youtu.be/Ik83VfAsRAo?... Animation : da_virgul Musique : @exaheva.bsky.social Motion design : @yuzu-studio.com Sound design : Run

Also read this banger revisit of the Power Rangers by Singelin and Bablet. I love seeing behind the curtains.

Went to see Hiver à Sokcho this weekend. Loved it.

The #vgtunes of the day is... 🥁 ✨ Furi ✨ The bullet hell hack'n'slash from @thegamebakers.bsky.social has unique visuals. But that also applies to its synthwave soundtrack by Danger, Carpenter Brut, and others. Check it out: https://vgtunes.chsxf.dev/albums/pabywwtv/ #vgm #GameMusic #videogame…

What really makes Astrobot shine compared to a Mario for me is the balancing. The game is fun to play for an adult and for a kid all the same. I can play Astro with my 9 y.o. daughter but mario is too hard on many occasions. Yet i’m not bored by Astrobot.

I liked Hogwarts Legacy but tbh i’m reading Harry Potter atm and I wouldn’t mind playing a Japanese-styled Harry Potter game with Persona 5’s game system. It would fit perfectly.

Wonderful animated trailer directed by Sixtine Dano (former Gobelins student) for her first graphic novel "Sibylline, chroniques d'une escort girl" (to be published at the end of the month in France). >> www.catsuka.com/news/2025-01...

Hi there ♥ The archer is back and they're drawing their arrow! I practiced archery a few years, was helpful for creating this animation! Hope you like it!! As always, chara design and textures by Anais Lehoux Model rig and animation by me!!

Been playing Astrobot this week-end with my daughter. What a pleasure it must have been for the dev team to work on this game. Every six months you get a new gadget to implement or to build level design for. Every time you launch the engine to test, it's instant fun and good vibes.

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I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file. PDFs support Javascript, so Emscripten is used to compile Doom to asm.js, which is then run within the PDF engine. Input/output is done by manipulating text input fields. doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf github.com/ading2210/do...